Ru Freeman

Ru Freeman is a Sri Lankan writer whose debut novel, A Disobedient Girl (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2009), was long-listed for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Her fiction has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Guernica, Story Quarterly, and World Literature Today. She is a contributing editor at the Asian American Literary Review, and her political commentary appears regularly on Huffington Post. She lives in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, with her husband and three daughters.

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